A “quant,” or quantitative analyst, is a specialist who uses mathematical and statistical methods to analyze the economy.
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Introduction
...College for several years, O’Neil left academia for a new “laboratory”—the global economy. As a “quant” (quantitative analyst) for D.E. Shaw, a major hedge fund, O’Neil was amazed by how the...
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Chapter 2: Shell Shocked
Quants who work at hedge funds zoom in on tiny patterns, then train algorithms to predict...
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...At Shaw, her smarts were translating into money—lots of money. But out of the 50 quants on O’Neil’s “futures group” team, she was the only woman. She was siloed from many...
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...the human suffering it created was finally on display. In the financial sector, everyone—including the quants at O’Neil’s firm—began to wonder what would happen next. But by 2009, it was clear...
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